| Chronology of Merton's life and world events (1915-1968) -- Part I. Lessons from the Life and Teachings of Thomas Merton : -- Becoming who we are / James Martin, S.J. -- Meeting Thomas Merton for the first time / Mary Neill, O.P. -- On spiritual exploration / Robert Ellsberg -- How to be a friend / Gregory K. Hillis -- Our expanded religious and spiritual horizons / Kevin Hunt, O.C.S.O. Sensei -- What it means to be a person of dialogue / Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M. -- How we understand our sexual lives / Kaya Oakes -- Part II. Life Lessons in the Light of Merton : -- On the hundredth anniversry of Thomas Merton's birth / Bishop Robert Barron -- How Thomas Merton and the music of Keith Jarett changed my life / Kevin Burns -- Anatomy of a conversion / Paula Huston -- Conversion in Morningside Heights / Rabbi Phil Miller -- Merton's death as seen from the home grounds / Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O. -- The restless, furious, quietly abiding friend of us all / Pico Iyer -- Thomas Merton and the realization of us / Sylvia Boorstein -- Merton on the spiritual promise of interreligious dialogue / Acharya Judith Simmer- Brown -- The dazzling light within / Ilia Delio, O.S.F. -- False self, true self : finding the real me / Sue Monk Kidd -- Thomas Merton is a dangerous fellow / Timothy McCormick -- Merton's love affair with the unknown / Fr. John Julian, O.J.N. -- Staunch friendship for the love of God / Rabbi David Zaslow. |
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